Energy Consultant
Austin, Texas, United States
Description
Climate change is changing the world faster than ever before. Utilities will play a crucial role in the transformation of our society to fight climate change and become carbon-neutral, while at the same time making sure people and businesses can continue to use energy supply like they've been used to for so many years.At Gorilla, we're determined to not stay aside, but to make a real impact on the utility industry by providing data services that allow utilities to play the role they need to play in the quest for a net-zero society. By building something that solves a real problem, and by being the best at what we do.
Your role
As an Energy Consultant, you work together with our clients, solution architects and engineers on requirements for calculation models, identifying specific data needs and algorithms. With your knowledge of the US market, you are able to represent and demonstrate Gorilla’s beautiful pricing, forecasting and billing solutions to our prospects and clients.
Starting with the sales phase, all the way throughout the implementation of a project, you support our customers in workshops with different stakeholders. Start to finish, you translate functional project details into a language all stakeholders understand.
You effortlessly describe the US market cost component calculations, characteristics and best practices to all project stakeholders. Additionally, you are skilled at analysing and understanding a client’s process and their pricing and forecasting methodologies. By gathering information, you are able to accurately brief our engineering team and test their deliverables. You pride yourself on a qualitative delivery each and every time.As a strong believer in co-creation and teamwork, you naturally do all of this in close collaboration with our colleagues.
Responsibilities
- You display expertise and are able to connect with customer business experts to work together on creating the perfect solution;
- You use your deep understanding of pricing, forecasting and portfolio management to co-create calculation models in Gorilla;
- You configure, test and identify gaps in our existing solution, defining a backlog of project work;
- You make sure our data engineers know what to develop;
- You protect development quality by creating and performing extensive test scenarios;
- Together with the project manager, solution architect and the data engineering team, you take delivering IT projects to the next level.
Requirements
- You have at least 5 years of experience in the energy retail industry in areas of pricing, forecasting or trading;
- You have worked on IT projects before;
- You understand the US Energy market inside out, and are following up on the latest advancements;
- You have an analytical mind and are a numerical problem solver;
- You thrive on understanding and solving complex problems;
- You’re fluent in English;
- You have strong communication skills, both written and oral;
- You are a people person, just as much as a subject matter expert;
- You have experience in multiple geographical energy markets (+)
What you get
You become part of an ambitious organisation and an enthusiastic team with a mindset to win! As Gorilla is growing at an incredible pace, you can leave your mark - growing alongside Gorilla.
Gorilla’s technical complexity requires us to constantly research and test new technologies – leveraging their strongest assets to make Gorilla performant and impressive. We actively challenge ourselves and our colleagues, in order to always improve our skills, methodology and capabilities. Lifelong learning is essentially embedded in our organisation.
On top of that, our remuneration approach is clear and no-nonsense, just like our feedback culture and personal development approach. You’ll be able to join a team from wherever you’d like to work – equipped with the best technology for remote work. We’ll provide access to an office space near you whenever you like, as well as frequent travels to meet your colleagues in person, making sure you’ll never feel lonely.